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Queen's Bench, Montreal. 
 
 Mr. Justice Wurtele's 
 
 ihargeto tho Sraijd^urij, 
 
 Jhursdoy^ Ist Jane 1893. 
 
 Gentlemen of the Grand Jury: 
 
 You have been called here to assist in tho admiiiisitra- 
 tion of crimiDal justice in this district, and your principal 
 duty will be to enquire into the accusations which will be 
 laid before you by the Crown prosecutor.^, and see if the 
 evidence on which they are founded is sufficient to oblige 
 the accused persons to answer the charges and stand a trial. 
 
 The accusations are reduced to writing in techn'cal 
 form, and the written accusations thus drafted are called 
 bills. On the back, the names of the witnesses are writ- 
 ten ; and these witnesses, or as many of them as you 
 may require, will be brought before you and examined 
 en oath. The examination will be conducted either by 
 the down oifioers or by your foreman, aod the latter 
 will put his initials at the end of the name of each wit- 
 ness examined. Any one of you, however, has the right 
 to put to the witnesses any additional questions that he 
 may think necessary. 
 
 In order to proceed in any case, it is necessary that 
 twelve jurors at least be present, and to find an accusation 
 founded, or to declare ifc unfounded, twelve at least mutt 
 concur. When you find an accusation to be founded 
 your foreman will write the words " A True Bill*' or 
 the back of the bill and sign his name below them, adding 
 under his signature the word " Foreman," and when you 
 
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 reject an accusation he Tvili write the woris "No Bill 
 on the back of the bill, siiioiiii; his name and adding his 
 (jualiiy as in the first case. 
 
 The examination which you will make of each case 
 is not a trial of the accused person. Its object is to see 
 whether there is sufficient ground to put tha accused per- 
 son on his trial before a petty jury. If it appears from 
 tlie evidence that it is probable that the crime or offeree 
 laid in the bill was committed by the person accused, you 
 sliould find and return a true bill ; and it will then be for 
 the Crown to establish his guilt or for the accused person 
 to excuse himself, in court. If, on the other hand, you 
 {•hould think that the evidence docs not implicate the accused 
 pprson, you should say that there is no bill, and on your 
 return to that eft'oct the accused person will be at once 
 discharged from the charge contair d in that bill. If you 
 j-hould in any case be unable to decide from the evidenc3 
 laid before you that the accused person should be put on 
 trial, aTid still be not satisfied as to his innocence, you 
 [-hould report your view, which will be done by your fore- 
 man writing the word *' Ignoramus " on the back of the 
 bill, and adding below it his signature and qualify. 
 
 You will bring all bills upn which you may act into 
 court, and they will be handod to the Clerk of the Crown by 
 your foreman, and your finding will be publicly announced. 
 
 I am glad to be able to tell you that tho number of cases 
 to bo submitted to you is not large, and that none of 
 them are for capital offences. Th's speaks well for the 
 district and especially for the metropolis of the DomiDion, 
 snd is certainly a subjict for congratulation. There is 
 nothing special in any of the cases, and I have therefore 
 no particular instructions to give to you. The Crown 
 prosecutors and the officers of the court will give to you such 
 aid as you may require, and I will be ready to give to you 
 at all convenient times advice and instructions should cir- 
 cumstances reejuire it. 
 
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 T nped lianlly tell you that you must keep thn secret 
 of your prooeedinp;s and deliberations, as the oath of 
 cflBce which you have just taken has laid that oblij^ation 
 upon you. You cannot but feel that the certitude that 
 the knowledge will bo kept to yourselves, of what takes 
 p'ace in the Grand Jury room when you discuss and 
 decide, will conduce to independence of action. 
 
 When you deliberate and vote on any bill, you s-hould 
 be alone, and the Crown prosecutors and officers must, 
 therefore, retire before the deliberation commences. 
 
 All provincial prisons and asylums within the district 
 may be visited by you, to ascertain if they are properly 
 managed and if the officers entrusted with their care fulfil 
 their duties, and to enable you to report to the court by 
 your presentment any neglect in that respect, so that it 
 may be brought under the attention of the proper author- 
 ities. But you may, perhaps, dispense during the present 
 terra with the usual visit, as these institutions were re- 
 cently seen and favorably reported upon. 
 
 i'ou may also call the attention of the court to any 
 nuisances which you may know to exist, or to any neglect 
 or dereliction of duly on the part of public officers or muni- 
 cipal corporations which may be brought under your no- 
 tice, so that such act^'on may b3 taken as may be necessary. 
 
 And in this conn(h;tion, I may reqrest you to visit the 
 building which is used in this city as a morgue and to 
 report on its condition. From the information given to 
 me, I believe that it is a disgrace to our city to allow 
 human bodies to be placed in such a dilapidated building, 
 or to bring respectable citizens serving on the coroner s 
 juries into it. There is, it appears^ a conflict between 
 the Corporation of the city and the fVovincial Govern- 
 ment as to which is o^ liged to provide the building, bul a 
 representation of the condition of the morgue now used and 
 a remonstrance may bring about a settlement and result in 
 a proper building being ptovidtd. 
 
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 Another subject to which, in the public interct, you 
 nii^ht cull the attention of the City Council is the over- 
 loading of the cars on the Electric Street Kailway. It is 
 true that this overloading is due in part to the fault of 
 the passen<j;ers thoumelves, who, of their own accord, got 
 on cars which have already as many passengers as they 
 can comfortably and safely carry ; but the company and 
 its olticers and servants remain responsible, notwithstand- 
 ing this, for the safety of the passengers that they cany. 
 Should an accident occur in consequence of the overload- 
 ing of a car, the company's oflScers and servants might 
 have to answer a charge of manslaughter. The punish- 
 ment, however, of those whose misconduct caused the ac- 
 cident would be no consolation to the relations and friends 
 of those to whom the accident might bring death. All we 
 can do is to sound a warning note by which the attention 
 of those having a supervising power may be directed to 
 this dangerous practice. 
 
 In another month the Criminal Code will come into force, 
 and this will, wdthout doubt, render more easy the tatk of 
 administering criminal justice. Instead of having to fcarch 
 through many volumes of the statutes to tind the law ap- 
 plicable to a case, reference will hereafter be made to one 
 small valume, contaioing the criminal code, in which the 
 whole of our existing criminal statutory enactments have 
 been compressed, with such amendments as experience 
 showed the expediency of. Although the criminal code 
 will not do away with the necessity for the use and study 
 of text books and reports, it will greatly help and lebsen 
 the labor of the student, the Crown prosecutor, the plea- 
 der and the judge, in the same way as the civil code and 
 the code of civil procedure have doae in the study and 
 pr«ctice of the civil law. .; . 
 
 You will now withdraw to the Grand Jury room and 
 proceed with yo'ir kbor.-.